Primary Entrance to your house? - Page 2

gottimd · 03-28-2008, 11:52 AM

Has anyone ever removed all of their walls in their place and made every single space a door? Its like one big MC Escher structure....stairs and doors and hallways and more doors!

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 01:06 PM

MikeVic, is it a side-by-side? I could see one of those only having the one entrance per side...

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Fidatelo

MikeVic, is it a side-by-side? I could see one of those only having the one entrance per side...

No, but there's a few of those on my street.

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

No, but there's a few of those on my street.

That is so weird. Do you have a back lane?

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Fidatelo

That is so weird. Do you have a back lane?

Nope.

I know, you think you know every Winnipeg house eh?

Lorena · 03-28-2008, 01:27 PM

hay mike, how is it possible you have only 1 door? i mean seriously

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Nope.

I know, you think you know every Winnipeg house eh?

I'm trying to even think of what neighborhoods might have a house like that. No backlane is relatively modern, so that rules a lot out, but not too modern because I can't imagine a house built in the last 10-15 years being designed that way.

So it was likely built in the 80's. That's all I've got.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 01:30 PM

Late 1970s.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 01:31 PM

And one side has backlanes.

JonInMiddleGA · 03-28-2008, 01:34 PM

I'm seriously trying to recall ever seeing a house with no back door but I'm coming up blank.

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

And one side has backlanes.

Does that side have back doors?

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Dodgerchick

hay mike, how is it possible you have only 1 door? i mean seriously

ONE ENTRANCE. No exits.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Does that side have back doors?

You know I don't remember. I guess I'm visiting the back lane tonight.

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

You know I don't remember. I guess I'm visiting the back lane tonight.

Is that safe?

Alan T · 03-28-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I'm seriously trying to recall ever seeing a house with no back door but I'm coming up blank.

Virtually every house in my neighborhood that hasn't later been added-on to has no back door. All of the houses are cookie cutter post-WW2 homes that alot of troops came home from the war and ended up moving into with their families (baby-boomer era).

Almost without exception, they all are designed in halves, with the front half of the house having from left to right when facing the house The living room -> a tiny dining room -> Kitchen. The front door is stuck in between the living room and the dining room. The back half of the house has 3 bedrooms across the back with the bathroom being stuck between the kitchen and the back right bedroom.

My house is one of several that had modifications made in the 70s or 80s, where a much larger living room was added to the left side of the house and a sun room on the right side, both of which have the only back doors to my house. Any house in my neighborhood without add-ons would have no back door either.

I think its just a regional type of style of house, I never saw any homes like this in the south growing up.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Is that safe?

Yeah, it's a small bay. So the backlane really goes through the middle.

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Yeah, it's a small bay. So the backlane really goes through the middle.

Dude, you are blowing my mind. Do you have 2 basements?

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Dude, you are blowing my mind. Do you have 2 basements?

Ok, so there's a street that's a semi-circle. There's houses on both sides of the semi-circle. And then there's a back lane going through the middle of the semi-circle.

No, if I had two basements then one would be a sub-basement.

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Ok, so there's a street that's a semi-circle. There's houses on both sides of the semi-circle. And then there's a back lane going through the middle of the semi-circle.

No, if I had two basements then one would be a sub-basement.

So only 2 houses are directly next to the back lane? And the rest face it? I seriously need to see a diagram.

Passacaglia · 03-28-2008, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

ONE ENTRANCE. No exits.

Oh, I think I came across your house while playing ADVENTURE.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 02:01 PM

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st.cronin · 03-28-2008, 02:02 PM

Best thread of the day, so far.

Pumpy Tudors · 03-28-2008, 02:04 PM

but you could still put a door back there

st.cronin · 03-28-2008, 02:08 PM

How is "Petriw" pronounced?

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 02:09 PM

So if you have a dog you have to let him out the front door, weird

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

but you could still put a door back there

If I wanted to make a hole in my sister's or my parents' rooms, yes. And then I'd need some kind of stairs going down or something. Or jump.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

So if you have a dog you have to let him out the front door, weird

Yeah, I guess you're right. But I don't have dogs. I did have guinea pigs that I would let run on the front grass. Our old neighbour had dogs and they'd shit on our front lawn sometimes too.

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 02:16 PM

That's an interesting street layout, but it makes sense now that I can see it.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

How is "Petriw" pronounced?

I really don't know. I say it as Pe-trew. "Pe" as it "pet." And "trew" as in "true." But I always have to spell it out for people. I started just spelling it out, not even saying it. But people would get confused.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Fidatelo

That's an interesting street layout, but it makes sense now that I can see it.

Yeah it's weird. A lot of cookie-cutter homes.

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Yeah, I guess you're right. But I don't have dogs. I did have guinea pigs that I would let run on the front grass. Our old neighbour had dogs and they'd shit on our front lawn sometimes too.

well of course they did, they had no idea where the back yard was.

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 02:26 PM

I am thinking of all the annoying scenerios not having a back door creates and I think it's enough to not make me buy the house.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 02:29 PM

I've never lived in a house with a secondary door, so I don't know if I'd know what to do with a secondary door.

stevew · 03-28-2008, 02:30 PM

Yeah, it's a lot harder to take a dead hooker out the side or front doors when you want to bury her.

Passacaglia · 03-28-2008, 02:39 PM

Where in the house is your kitchen?

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Passacaglia

Where in the house is your kitchen?

When you walk in, the living room is right there. Then there's a small 3-step stair that goes to a hallway, and the first opening to the right is the kitchen. The kitchen overlooks the living room, so you can see the living room and front door if you're in the kitchen.

gottimd · 03-28-2008, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

ONE ENTRANCE. No exits.

Is your home the thunderdome in Madmax?

cartman · 03-28-2008, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by gottimd

Is your home the thunderdome in Madmax?

MikeVic is Master Blaster?!!?

Cringer · 03-28-2008, 04:43 PM

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Could you please point out which house is yours, and list all valuables please.

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 04:47 PM

I'm curious, was this post:

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Originally Posted by Passacaglia

Where in the house is your kitchen?

Inspired by the one above it?

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Originally Posted by stevew

Yeah, it's a lot harder to take a dead hooker out the side or front doors when you want to bury her.

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Cringer

Could you please point out which house is yours, and list all valuables please.

No need, I'm just planning on hanging out in that back lane tonight...

Lorena · 03-28-2008, 04:55 PM

so mikevic, what would happen if there was a fire in the front entrance? i hope you have windows.

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Dodgerchick

so mikevic, what would happen if there was a fire in the front entrance? i hope you have windows.

Windows? What do you take the man for, a King?!?

Izulde · 03-28-2008, 05:47 PM

At the fraternity house it's the back door.

At home it's the front door.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by cartman

MikeVic is Master Blaster?!!?

Shh.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Cringer

Could you please point out which house is yours, and list all valuables please.

Yeah, it's at coordinates (alpha, beta).

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Fidatelo

No need, I'm just planning on hanging out in that back lane tonight...

Now I'm not gonna go there!

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Windows? What do you take the man for, a King?!?

Yeah what he said. Windows, schmindows. Just go outside if you want air or sun.

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Izulde

At the fraternity house it's the back door.

I always suspected something but....

Fidatelo · 03-28-2008, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Now I'm not gonna go there!

Foiled again!

View Poll Results: Which entrance gets your primary traffic
Front door	32	58.18%
Side/back door	19	34.55%
Back Door Baby!!!!!(joke option)	1	1.82%
I only have one entrance to our living space	3	5.45%
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03-28-2008, 01:06 PM	#52
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03-28-2008, 01:34 PM	#60
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	I'm seriously trying to recall ever seeing a house with no back door but I'm coming up blank. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

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03-28-2008, 02:04 PM	#73
Pumpy Tudors Bounty Hunter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	but you could still put a door back there __________________ No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor.

03-28-2008, 01:27 PM	#56
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	hay mike, how is it possible you have only 1 door? i mean seriously

03-28-2008, 01:30 PM	#58
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	Late 1970s.

03-28-2008, 01:31 PM	#59
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	And one side has backlanes.

03-28-2008, 02:01 PM	#71
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	View Larger Map

03-28-2008, 02:08 PM	#74
st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	How is "Petriw" pronounced? __________________ co-commish: bb-bbcf.net knives out

03-28-2008, 02:09 PM	#75
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	So if you have a dog you have to let him out the front door, weird

03-28-2008, 02:16 PM	#78
Fidatelo Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Winnipeg, MB	That's an interesting street layout, but it makes sense now that I can see it. __________________ "Breakfast? Breakfast schmekfast, look at the score for God's sake. It's only the second period and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver maybe once or twice in a lifetime."

03-28-2008, 02:26 PM	#82
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	I am thinking of all the annoying scenerios not having a back door creates and I think it's enough to not make me buy the house.

03-28-2008, 02:29 PM	#83
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	I've never lived in a house with a secondary door, so I don't know if I'd know what to do with a secondary door.

03-28-2008, 02:30 PM	#84
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Yeah, it's a lot harder to take a dead hooker out the side or front doors when you want to bury her.

03-28-2008, 02:39 PM	#85
Passacaglia Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Big Ten Country	Where in the house is your kitchen?

03-28-2008, 04:55 PM	#92
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	so mikevic, what would happen if there was a fire in the front entrance? i hope you have windows.

03-28-2008, 05:47 PM	#94
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	At the fraternity house it's the back door. At home it's the front door. __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

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